"Schecky the Monkey King threw caution to the wind. The trail of the flesh eating white apes of the Lost City was clear to his jungle-bred senses. He knew that the apes had kidnapped Cindy and that she would soon be devoured as part of their twisted ritual sacrifice."
So begins another episode of Schecky the Monkey King, with a look reminiscent of the Russ Manning Tarzan strips we used to read in the Sunday papers. By the way, I have a few scans of the last of the Russ Manning Tarzan strips, before he handed the strip over to Mike Grell. If you're interested, write me.
Schkey and Mighty Shmoe Pong are part of the reading diet of the bizarre characters in Frank Cho's liberty meadows. The best way to tell if you'll enjoy Liberty Meadows is to score yourself against the following test:
1. Have you ever been a fan of Edgar Rice Burrogh's Tarzan and John Carter, Warlord of Mars novels?
2. Have you ever been a fan of things Star Wars (the original trilogy, in particular)
3. Do you get a kick out of Dinosaurs and Giant Apes?
4. Do you enjoy clean line art? Black & White as opposed to monochrome graduated patches or airbrushed colors?
5. Do you enjoy touches of insanity in your reading matter?
6. Ever associated yourself with geekdom, and are able to sympthatize with the trials and tribulations of geeks?
7. Ever fantasized about or fell in lust/love with a comic book super heroine?
The more "yes" answers you have, the more you'll enjoy Liberty Meadows. I love Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes for many of the same reasons - all these strips have very strongly defined characters who can carry off the gag by simply being present. But there's much more of a fanboy aspect to Liberty Meadows.
There's a nice tie-in here to an earlier posting about Peter Jackson's King Kong - Mighty Shmoe Pong is a direct spoof of Kong - dinosaur fights and all.
Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows Internet Sanctuary website is linked here.
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